PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ぺん/ふぉーくなーしょう(ふぃくしょんぶもん)
Edition 10 (1990)
FictionNovelAmerican Literature Award
Winners
1 peopleA coming-of-age novel about Billy, a boy immersed in the gangster world of the 1930s. Through the criminal underworld around real-life gangsters, it depicts loyalty, betrayal, power, and a vivid historical milieu.
A boy grows up inside the gangster world.
gangsters and crimecoming of agehistorical fictionthe city’s darker side